:CEDEC Awards

{{Short description|Annual awards for video games and developers}}

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|awarded_for = Outstanding game developers and games

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CEDEC Awards are annually presented by Tokyo, Japan-based CEDEC (CESA Developers conference) for outstanding game developers and games. The awards started in 2008.

Selection Process

The CEDEC Awards began in 2008, at the "CEDEC 2008" conference, on its 10th anniversary. The main awards were based on suggestions by the public, from which nominations were chosen by the CEDEC advisory board, which were then voted on by the advisory board, and CEDEC students.{{citation | url =https://www.cesa.or.jp/uploads/2008/cedec2008_080910.pdf| title = ゲーム技術開発賞「CEDEC AWARDS ２００８」 | language = japanese|date =10 Sep 2008 }}

Award list

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Year !Engineering !Visual Arts !Game Design !Sound !Network !Special Award !Books
2008 {{Cite web \|last=Tanaka \|first=John \|date=2008-09-10 \|title=Miyamoto Wins Special CEDEC Award \|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/09/10/miyamoto-wins-special-cedec-award \|access-date=2022-08-26 \|website=IGN \|language=en}} \|MT Framework (Capcom) \|Ico \|Super Mario series \|Legend of Zelda series \|Not awarded \|Shigeru Miyamoto \|Not awarded
2009 \|Shadow of the Colossus programming team (Sony Computer Entertainment) \|Ōkami artist and technical artist (Capcom) \|Monster Hunter Portable development team (Capcom) \|Rhythm Tengoku Gold development team (Nintendo) \|Nico Nico Douga video sharing (Niwango) \|Yuji Horii \|Sho Hirayama "Technologies that before you become a game programmer"; Haruhisa Ishida "C language"
2010 \|mycomBASIC magazine editorial department and contributors (Denpa Newspaper Company) \|Infinity Ward (Activision / Infinity Ward) \|Demon's Souls development team (FromSoftware) \|KORG DS-10 series development team (AQ Interactive) \|Sekai Camera development team (Tonchi) \|Masaya Nakamura \|BornDigital Inc & Hiroyuki Kawanishi (Microsoft) (Microsoft)
2011 \|Unity Engine team (Unity Technologies) \|Street Fighter IV design team (Capcom) \|Akihiro Hino (Level-5) \|CRI ADX2 development team (CRI Middleware) \|Amazon EC2/S3 (Amazon Web Services) \|Satoshi Tajiri & Tsunekazu Ishihara \|Kengo Nakajima "The technology of Online game"
2012 \|Kinect (Kinect development team) \|Journey development team (Thatgamecompany) \|Puzzle & Dragons development team (GungHo Online Entertainment) \|The Idolmaster series music team (Bandai Namco) \|Enchant.js development team (Ubiquitous Entertainment) \|Koichi Hamamura \|Yosuke Katsura, Marc Salvati, Tatsuo Yotsukura "Technical Artist Start Kit"
2013 {{citation\| url = http://cedec.cesa.or.jp/2013/event/awards/prize/ \| title = CEDEC AWARDS 2013 \| language = japanese \| work = cedec.cesa.or.jp }} \|Oculus Rift Development Kit \|JoJo's Bizarre Adventure ("Kamikaze Video" :ja:神風動画) \|Kenji Eno \|CeVIO Creative Studio dev team \|Nintendo DS communication technology team \|Ken Kutaragi \|Yoshiki Dojima "Technology and ideas to move games"; Masaki Kato "How to make games Unity's play algorithm to remember"
2014 {{citation\| url =https://cgworld.jp/news/event/1409-cedec-awards-20145cesa.html\| title = CEDEC AWARDS 2014 \| language = japanese \| work = cgworld.jp }}{{citation\| url = http://cedec.cesa.or.jp/2014/event/awards_prize.html\| title = CEDEC AWARDS最優秀賞 / CEDEC 2014\| language = japanese \| work = cedec.cesa.or.jp}} \|Unreal Engine 4 dev team \|Softimage (Autodesk) \|Fleet Collection (DMM.com / Kadokawa Games) \|Hideki Sakamoto \|"PS4 share button" dev team (Sony Computer Entertainment) \|Koichi Sugiyama \|DeNa "Mobageを支える技術～ソーシャルゲームの舞台裏～"
2015 {{citation\| url =http://cedec.cesa.or.jp/2015/event/awards_prize.html \| title = CEDEC AWARDS / 公式サイト / CEDEC 2015 \| language = japanese \| work = cedec.cesa.or.jp }} \|Visual Studio \|Guilty Gear Xrd (Arc System Works) \|Neko Atsume (Hit-Point) \|Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U (Masahiro Sakurai/Sora Ltd./Nintendo) \|Ingress (Niantic) \|Toru Iwatani / Tomohiro Nishikado (Space Invaders / Pac Man) \|大野功二氏 : "3Dゲームをおもしろくする技術実例から解き明かすゲームメカニクス・レベルデザイン・カメラのノウハウ" (published SB Creative)
2016 {{citation\| url = https://www.4gamer.net/games/999/G999905/20160825101/ \| title = 「CEDEC AWARDS 2016」最優秀賞の受賞者が発表。 \| language = japanese \| work = www.4gamer.net }} \|Nvidia GameWorks \|Splatoon dev team (Nintendo) \|Splatoon dev team (Nintendo) \|Splatoon dev team (Nintendo) \| - \|Yōichi Erikawa, founder Koei, president Koei Tecmo \|CGWORLD (japan) magazine, publisher "Born Digital Inc." (株式会社ボーンデジタル)
2017 {{citation\| url = https://tech.nikkeibp.co.jp/it/atcl/column/17/083000354/090100003/ \| title = CEDEC AWARDS 2017の最優秀賞が決定 / 日経 xTECH（クロステック）\| language=Japanese \| work = tech.nikkeibp.co.jp}} \|PlayStation VR \|The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo) \|The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo) \|Nier: Automata (Square Enix/PlatinumGames) \| - \|Hironobu Sakaguchi \|Eske Yoshinob : "マヤ道！！THE ROAD OF MAYA"
2018 {{citation \|title=CEDEC2018 \|url=https://cedec.cesa.or.jp/2018/event/awards/prize.html \|work=cedec.cesa.or.jp \|language=Japanese}} \|The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo) \|Nier: Automata (Square Enix/PlatinumGames) \|Splatoon 2 (Nintendo) \|Persona 5 (Atlus) \| - \|Yu Suzuki \|伊藤毅志氏 "ゲーム情報学概論 -ゲームを切り拓く人工知能-" (publisher "Corona", :ja:コロナ社 (出版社)
2019 {{citation\| url=https://www.famitsu.com/news/201909/05182737.html \| title="CEDEC AWARDS 2019"各部門の最優秀賞が発表。ゲームデザイン部門は『Nintendo Labo』開発チームが受賞【CEDEC 2019】 \| language=Japanese \| magazine=Famitsu \| date=September 5, 2019}} \|Perforce (Perforce Software, Inc.) \|Masayoshi Sudo (Atlus) \|Nintendo Labo (Nintendo) \|Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown (Bandai Namco Entertainment) \| - \|Masahiro Sakurai \|Jun Matsunaga: チェインクロニクルから学ぶスマートフォンRPGのつくり方
2020 {{Cite web \|title=CEDEC2020 \|url=https://cedec.cesa.or.jp/2020/event/awards/prize.html \|access-date=2022-08-25 \|website=cedec.cesa.or.jp \|language=ja}}{{Cite web \|last=Stenbuck \|first=Kite \|date=2020-09-03 \|title=Final Fantasy VII Remake and Hideo Kojima Win at CEDEC Awards 2020 \|url=https://www.siliconera.com/cedec-awards-2020-winners/ \|access-date=2022-08-25 \|website=Siliconera \|language=en-US}} \|CAPCOM Open Conference RE:2019 Management Team and "RE ENGINE" Development Team (CAPCOM Corporation) \|Atsume Animal Crossing Development Team (Nintendo Corporation) \|Ring Fit Adventure Development Team (Nintendo Corporation) \|Final Fantasy VII Remake Sound Development Team (Square Enix Inc.) \| - \|Hideo Kojima \| -
2021 {{Cite web \|title=CEDEC2021 \|url=https://cedec.cesa.or.jp/2021/event/awards/prize.html \|access-date=2022-08-25 \|website=CEDEC2021 \|language=ja}}{{Cite web \|last=Stenbuck \|first=Kite \|date=2021-08-25 \|title=Ghost of Tsushima Won Twice at CEDEC Awards 2021 \|url=https://www.siliconera.com/ghost-of-tsushima-won-twice-at-cedec-awards-2021/ \|access-date=2022-08-25 \|website=Siliconera \|language=en-US}} \|Ryugaku Studio Dragon Engine Development Team (Sega Corporation) \|Ghost of Tsushima Development Team (Sucker Punch Productions) \|Eru Deru Waisu Tenho no Sakunahime (Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin) \|Ghost of Tsushima Sound Development Team (Sucker Punch Productions) \| - \|Mark Cerny \| -
2022 {{Cite web \|title=CEDEC2022 \|url=https://cedec.cesa.or.jp/2022/event/awards/prize \|access-date=2023-12-06 \|website=CEDEC2022 \|language=ja}}{{Cite web \|last=Stenbuck \|first=Kite \|date=2022-08-24 \|title=Elden Ring and Uma Musume Developers Won at CEDEC Awards 2022 \|url=https://www.siliconera.com/elden-ring-and-uma-musume-developers-won-at-cedec-awards-2022/ \|access-date=2023-12-06 \|website=Siliconera \|language=en-US}} \|Cygames Tech Conference Management Team (Cygames, Inc.) \|Elden Ring Development Team (FromSoftware, Inc.) \|Elden Ring Development Team (FromSoftware, Inc.) \|Uma Musume Pretty Derby Sound Development Team (Cygames, Inc.) \| - \|Hidetaka Miyazaki \| -
2023 {{Cite web \|title=CEDEC2023 \|url= https://cedec.cesa.or.jp/2023/event/awards/prize \|access-date=2023-12-06 \|website=CEDEC2023 \|language=ja}}{{Cite web \|last=Stenbuck \|first=Kite \|date=2023-08-25 \|title=Nintendo Affiliated Entities Dominated CEDEC Awards 2023 \|url=https://www.siliconera.com/nintendo-affiliated-entities-dominated-cedec-awards-2023/ \|access-date=2023-12-06 \|website=Siliconera \|language=en-US}} \|Kirby and the Forgotten Land Development Team (Nintendo/HAL Laboratory) \|Masahiro Sakurai (Sora Ltd) \|Masahiro Sakurai (Sora Ltd) \|Hi-Fi RUSH Sound Development Team (Tango Gameworks) \| - \|The Legend of Zelda Development Team / Eiji Aonuma \| -

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Year

!Engineering

!Visual Arts

!Game Design

!Sound

!Network

!Special Award

!Books

2008

{{Cite web |last=Tanaka |first=John |date=2008-09-10 |title=Miyamoto Wins Special CEDEC Award |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/09/10/miyamoto-wins-special-cedec-award |access-date=2022-08-26 |website=IGN |language=en}}

|MT Framework (Capcom)

|Ico

|Super Mario series

|Legend of Zelda series

|Not awarded

|Shigeru Miyamoto

|Not awarded

2009

|Shadow of the Colossus programming team (Sony Computer Entertainment)

|Ōkami artist and technical artist (Capcom)

|Monster Hunter Portable development team (Capcom)

|Rhythm Tengoku Gold development team (Nintendo)

|Nico Nico Douga video sharing (Niwango)

|Yuji Horii

|Sho Hirayama "Technologies that before you become a game programmer"; Haruhisa Ishida "C language"

2010

|mycomBASIC magazine editorial department and contributors (Denpa Newspaper Company)

|Infinity Ward (Activision / Infinity Ward)

|Demon's Souls development team (FromSoftware)

|KORG DS-10 series development team (AQ Interactive)

|Sekai Camera development team (Tonchi)

|Masaya Nakamura

|BornDigital Inc & Hiroyuki Kawanishi (Microsoft) (Microsoft)

2011

|Unity Engine team (Unity Technologies)

|Street Fighter IV design team (Capcom)

|Akihiro Hino (Level-5)

|CRI ADX2 development team (CRI Middleware)

|Amazon EC2/S3 (Amazon Web Services)

|Satoshi Tajiri & Tsunekazu Ishihara

|Kengo Nakajima "The technology of Online game"

2012

|Kinect (Kinect development team)

|Journey development team (Thatgamecompany)

|Puzzle & Dragons development team (GungHo Online Entertainment)

|The Idolmaster series music team (Bandai Namco)

|Enchant.js development team (Ubiquitous Entertainment)

|Koichi Hamamura

|Yosuke Katsura, Marc Salvati, Tatsuo Yotsukura "Technical Artist Start Kit"

2013

{{citation| url = http://cedec.cesa.or.jp/2013/event/awards/prize/ | title = CEDEC AWARDS 2013 | language = japanese | work = cedec.cesa.or.jp }}

|Oculus Rift Development Kit

|JoJo's Bizarre Adventure ("Kamikaze Video" :ja:神風動画)

|Kenji Eno

|CeVIO Creative Studio dev team

|Nintendo DS communication technology team

|Ken Kutaragi

|Yoshiki Dojima "Technology and ideas to move games"; Masaki Kato "How to make games Unity's play algorithm to remember"

2014

{{citation| url =https://cgworld.jp/news/event/1409-cedec-awards-20145cesa.html| title = CEDEC AWARDS 2014 | language = japanese | work = cgworld.jp }}{{citation| url = http://cedec.cesa.or.jp/2014/event/awards_prize.html| title = CEDEC AWARDS最優秀賞 / CEDEC 2014| language = japanese | work = cedec.cesa.or.jp}}

|Unreal Engine 4 dev team

|Softimage (Autodesk)

|Fleet Collection (DMM.com / Kadokawa Games)

|Hideki Sakamoto

|"PS4 share button" dev team (Sony Computer Entertainment)

|Koichi Sugiyama

|DeNa "Mobageを支える技術～ソーシャルゲームの舞台裏～"

2015

{{citation| url =http://cedec.cesa.or.jp/2015/event/awards_prize.html | title = CEDEC AWARDS / 公式サイト / CEDEC 2015 | language = japanese | work = cedec.cesa.or.jp }}

|Visual Studio

|Guilty Gear Xrd (Arc System Works)

|Neko Atsume (Hit-Point)

|Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U (Masahiro Sakurai/Sora Ltd./Nintendo)

|Ingress (Niantic)

|Toru Iwatani / Tomohiro Nishikado (Space Invaders / Pac Man)

|大野功二氏 : "3Dゲームをおもしろくする技術実例から解き明かすゲームメカニクス・レベルデザイン・カメラのノウハウ" (published SB Creative)

2016

{{citation| url = https://www.4gamer.net/games/999/G999905/20160825101/ | title = 「CEDEC AWARDS 2016」最優秀賞の受賞者が発表。 | language = japanese | work = www.4gamer.net }}

|Nvidia GameWorks

|Splatoon dev team (Nintendo)

| -

|Yōichi Erikawa, founder Koei, president Koei Tecmo

|CGWORLD (japan) magazine, publisher "Born Digital Inc." (株式会社ボーンデジタル)

2017

{{citation| url = https://tech.nikkeibp.co.jp/it/atcl/column/17/083000354/090100003/ | title = CEDEC AWARDS 2017の最優秀賞が決定 / 日経 xTECH（クロステック）| language=Japanese | work = tech.nikkeibp.co.jp}}

|PlayStation VR

|The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo)

|Nier: Automata (Square Enix/PlatinumGames)

| -

|Hironobu Sakaguchi

|Eske Yoshinob : "マヤ道！！THE ROAD OF MAYA"

2018

{{citation |title=CEDEC2018 |url=https://cedec.cesa.or.jp/2018/event/awards/prize.html |work=cedec.cesa.or.jp |language=Japanese}}

|The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo)

|Nier: Automata (Square Enix/PlatinumGames)

|Splatoon 2 (Nintendo)

|Persona 5 (Atlus)

| -

|Yu Suzuki

|伊藤毅志氏 "ゲーム情報学概論 -ゲームを切り拓く人工知能-" (publisher "Corona", :ja:コロナ社 (出版社)

2019

{{citation| url=https://www.famitsu.com/news/201909/05182737.html | title="CEDEC AWARDS 2019"各部門の最優秀賞が発表。ゲームデザイン部門は『Nintendo Labo』開発チームが受賞【CEDEC 2019】 | language=Japanese | magazine=Famitsu | date=September 5, 2019}}

|Perforce (Perforce Software, Inc.)

|Masayoshi Sudo (Atlus)

|Nintendo Labo (Nintendo)

|Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown (Bandai Namco Entertainment)

| -

|Masahiro Sakurai

|Jun Matsunaga: チェインクロニクルから学ぶスマートフォンRPGのつくり方

2020

{{Cite web |title=CEDEC2020 |url=https://cedec.cesa.or.jp/2020/event/awards/prize.html |access-date=2022-08-25 |website=cedec.cesa.or.jp |language=ja}}{{Cite web |last=Stenbuck |first=Kite |date=2020-09-03 |title=Final Fantasy VII Remake and Hideo Kojima Win at CEDEC Awards 2020 |url=https://www.siliconera.com/cedec-awards-2020-winners/ |access-date=2022-08-25 |website=Siliconera |language=en-US}}

|CAPCOM Open Conference RE:2019

Management Team and "RE ENGINE" Development Team

(CAPCOM Corporation)

|Atsume Animal Crossing Development Team (Nintendo Corporation)

|Ring Fit Adventure Development Team (Nintendo Corporation)

|Final Fantasy VII Remake Sound Development Team (Square Enix Inc.)

| -

|Hideo Kojima

| -

2021

{{Cite web |title=CEDEC2021 |url=https://cedec.cesa.or.jp/2021/event/awards/prize.html |access-date=2022-08-25 |website=CEDEC2021 |language=ja}}{{Cite web |last=Stenbuck |first=Kite |date=2021-08-25 |title=Ghost of Tsushima Won Twice at CEDEC Awards 2021 |url=https://www.siliconera.com/ghost-of-tsushima-won-twice-at-cedec-awards-2021/ |access-date=2022-08-25 |website=Siliconera |language=en-US}}

|Ryugaku Studio Dragon Engine Development Team

(Sega Corporation)

|Ghost of Tsushima Development Team

(Sucker Punch Productions)

|Eru Deru Waisu Tenho no Sakunahime (Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin)

|Ghost of Tsushima Sound Development Team

(Sucker Punch Productions)

| -

|Mark Cerny

| -

2022

{{Cite web |title=CEDEC2022 |url=https://cedec.cesa.or.jp/2022/event/awards/prize |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=CEDEC2022 |language=ja}}{{Cite web |last=Stenbuck |first=Kite |date=2022-08-24 |title=Elden Ring and Uma Musume Developers Won at CEDEC Awards 2022 |url=https://www.siliconera.com/elden-ring-and-uma-musume-developers-won-at-cedec-awards-2022/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Siliconera |language=en-US}}

|Cygames Tech Conference

Management Team

(Cygames, Inc.)

|Elden Ring Development Team

(FromSoftware, Inc.)

|Elden Ring Development Team

(FromSoftware, Inc.)

|Uma Musume Pretty Derby Sound Development Team

(Cygames, Inc.)

| -

|Hidetaka Miyazaki

| -

2023

{{Cite web |title=CEDEC2023 |url= https://cedec.cesa.or.jp/2023/event/awards/prize |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=CEDEC2023 |language=ja}}{{Cite web |last=Stenbuck |first=Kite |date=2023-08-25 |title=Nintendo Affiliated Entities Dominated CEDEC Awards 2023 |url=https://www.siliconera.com/nintendo-affiliated-entities-dominated-cedec-awards-2023/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Siliconera |language=en-US}}

|Kirby and the Forgotten Land Development Team

(Nintendo/HAL Laboratory)

|Masahiro Sakurai

(Sora Ltd)

|Masahiro Sakurai

(Sora Ltd)

|Hi-Fi RUSH Sound Development Team

(Tango Gameworks)

| -

|The Legend of Zelda Development Team / Eiji Aonuma

| -